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Steve Crider: Muni effort all wrong

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09/01/2014 01:00:00 AM MDT

Mark Hafen and other's letters that have shared the “truth” about the Empire of Boulder's attempt to start and run a muni have finally helped us understand and sadly realize, it's true, the “sky is falling.” Boulder's subjects (residents of the Empire) are finally being informed how far the Emperor (City Council) will go to push its agenda of control and outlandish spending in an attempt to provide electric power to Boulder, despite common sense from residents and industry experts which plead, “no way, the effort is not financially sound, it's just not happening.”

The Empire continues its rocky road down the muni on ramp and as Hafen points out, hides behind the Wizard of Oz's curtain, throwing millions of the Empire's tax dollars at this ill-fated campaign. One correction, the Empire's Utility Director, Heather Bailey, is being paid more than $250,000 per year (plus a annual housing stipend of $31,000.)

So my fellow subjects, while the Empire spends hundreds of thousands more of your taxpayer dollars take a moment to wake up and smell the spoiled efforts thus far and realize the Emperor just doesn't understand the negative ramifications of its actions and as the child's fable tells us, he has no clothes.

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